Marginal coral populations: the densest known aggregation of Pocillopora in the Galápagos Archipelago is of asexual origin
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Iliana B. Baums*, Meghann Devlin-Durante, Beatrice A. A. Laing, Joshua Feingold, Tyler Smith, Andrew Bruckner and Joao Monteiro 1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 2 Division of Math, Science and Technology, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA 3 Center for Marine Environmental Studies, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI, USA 4 Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Landover, MD, USA
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